The New 'Twister' Is a Pure, Mindless Hoot

“It’s old, but it’s field-tested,” says a character in Twisters as he unveils the original prototype of Dorothy, a device built a generation earlier by a team of storm-chasers to gather meteorological data from inside a tornado. The same might be said of the weatherbeaten yet durable storyline of Twisters, a stand-alone sequel to a smash-hit blockbuster that is now also a generation old. While not quite a “legacy sequel” in the sense of a movie like Top Gun: Maverick (in that Twisters dispenses with the characters and lore of the prior film while retaining its basic premise and most of its story beats), Lee Isaac Chung’s reboot is a worthy successor to the original, a rollicking popcorn thriller with an appealing screwball romance in the eye of its fast-moving storm.